Lexic.us

Definition of Scrag

1. Noun. A person who is unusually thin and scrawny.

2. Verb. Strangle with an iron collar. "They want to scrag the prisoners "; "People were garrotted during the Inquisition in Spain"

3. Noun. Lean end of the neck.

4. Verb. Wring the neck of. "The man choked his opponent"

5. Noun. The lean end of a neck of veal.

Definition of Scrag

1. n. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck.

2. v. t. To seize, pull, or twist the neck of; specif., to hang by the neck; to kill by hanging.

Definition of Scrag

1. Noun. (archaic) A thin or scrawny person or animal. (defdate from the 16th c.) ¹

2. Noun. (archaic) The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. ¹

3. Noun. (archaic) The neck, especially of a sheep. ¹

4. Noun. (Scotland) A scrog. ¹

5. Noun. (Australia) (slang) A rough or unkempt woman. ¹

6. Verb. (obsolete) (colloquial) To hang on a gallows, or to strangle or garotte or choke. ¹

7. Verb. To harass, to manhandle ¹

8. Verb. To kill or destroy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scrag

1. to wring the neck of [v SCRAGGED, SCRAGGING, SCRAGS]

Medical Definition of Scrag

1. 1. Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. "Lady MacScrew, who . . . Serves up a scrag of mutton on silver." (Thackeray) 2. A rawboned person. 3. A ragged, stunted tree or branch. Scrag whale, a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale. Origin: Cf. Dial. Sw. Skraka a great dry tree, a long, lean man, Gael. Sgreagach dry, shriveled, rocky. See Shrink, and cf. Scrog, Shrag. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrag

scrabblers scrabbles scrabblier scrabbliest scrabbling scrabblings scrabbly scraber scrabs scrae

scraes scraffle scraffled scraffles scraffling scrag (current term) scrag end scragged scraggedness scraggier

scraggiest scraggily scragginess scragging scragglier scraggliest scraggliness scraggly scraggy

Literary usage of Scrag

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"scrag. A lean serag, a body which is nothing but skin and bones.—B. Fris. skrog is used in ... scrag ..."

2. The Phonographic Dictionary and Phrase Book by Benn Pitman, Jerome Bird Howard (1901)
"... scour'ger scour'ing-machine scout 3 scout'ingly 3 scout'-master 3 scow 3 scow'-house 3 scowl scowl'ing scowl'ingly scrab'ble о—г scrag > scrag'ged scrag ..."

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